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  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    CCPA and SFU win prestigious research grant

    Project involving university and community researchers to study economic security in BC (Vancouver) The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (BC) and Simon Fraser University are launching a five-year project that will study changes to provincial public policies that impact the economic security of British Columbians. The project, which involves an…

  • What do we know about job vacancies in Canada?

    The most recent Jobs Vacancy statistics are out, and the trend for 2013 so far has been a reduction in the number of job vacancies reported by businesses compared to 2012. The number of job vacancies reported by businesses fell by 41,000 between September 2012 and September 2013, so that even though there…

  • Growing Gap

    Toronto-Centre: Ground Zero for Canada’s Income Inequality Debate

    For the first time in Canadian history, an election is being waged on this question: Which political candidate do you trust to reduce income inequality? Welcome to the Toronto-Centre by-election, where voters go to the polls on November 25. Two Toronto-Centre political candidates are stealing the show in this by-election…

  • BC hospital P3 ownership moves to tax haven

    One more of British Columbia’s public private partnerships (P3s) has headed on down the road to ownership in a European tax haven.  Bilfinger Berger Global Infrastructure completed deals last summer to acquire equity and loans for the Kelowna Vernon Hospital.  It is also buying out equity and loans on Alberta’s…

  • Work Life: For the Care We All Deserve

    Building Better Long-Term Care in Manitoba The long-term care (LTC) sector in Manitoba is facing serious challenges. Manitoba, like the rest of Canada, is faced with an aging population, increasing the demands on the LTC system and the need for funding. According to Statistics Canada, over the past ten years…

  • New community development model emerging in Saskatoon inner city

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT Saskatoon – According to a recent Centre for Policy Alternatives groundbreaking study on inner city community development, a unique form of ‘bottom up’ development in Saskatoon and Winnipeg has been created largely by core residents themselves. Professor Jim Silver, University of Winnipeg, says…

  • Public Interest Research Project (BC)

    Access to seniors’ care worse today than in 2001: Bold action needed

    It is becoming far too common. Many of us have a parent, relative or neighbour who has struggled to get the home support they need. Perhaps they have even waited in hospital because residential care or rehabilitation services were not available. Thousands of BC seniors rely upon and are well…

  • Lac-Mégantic: Where Does the Buck Stop?

    Canadians trust that their government will take reasonable measures to protect them, their workplaces, communities and their environment. Like the young people partying at the Musi-café in Lac-Mégantic, we are all, in a way, oblivious to the risks that governments impose on us. When a catastrophic accident like Lac-Mégantic happens,…

  • The Alternative Federal Budget 2017

    This year’s Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) was released on March 9. I was proud to be the primary author of its housing chapter. The first AFB exercise began in 1994, with the first AFB being published in 1995. That involved a joint effort between the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and CHO!CES:…

  • Climate Justice Project

    Will LNG development blow BC’s carbon budget?

    Last week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reaffirmed the scientific consensus that global warming is happening and is primarily caused by human use of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) for our energy needs. For the first time, however, the IPCC stated an upper limit on…

  • Corporate Mapping Project

    5.2 million reasons the fossil fuel industry has the BC government’s ear

    The role of big money and corporate lobbying in BC politics has become a major issue as we head into the May provincial election. It’s a problem of central concern to us at the Corporate Mapping Project, a research initiative investigating the power and influence of the fossil fuel industry.…

  • Electoral turnout and turnoff

    Another federal election is over and the House of Commons appears to reflect what on the surface many voters wanted – an end to 14 years of Liberal rule, and a tight reign on the new Conservative government. But the campaign and the composition of the federal legislature once again…